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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thomas Willoughby Waters

(c. 1839 - 1865)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Phillips' (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company D, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 14 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He transferred, as First Sergeant, to Company F, 3rd Battalion, Georgia Sharpshooters in May 1863 and was captured at Front Royal, VA on 16 August 1864. He was held at the Federal prison in Elmira, NY and died there of pneumonia on 17 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from Graham.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1839; Spartanburg, SC

Death

04/17/1865; Elmira, NY; burial in Woodlawn National Cemetery, Elmira, NY

Notes

1 Graham, Kurt D., Phillips Georgia Legion - Infantry Battalion, first accessed 20 September 2012, <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/RandysTexas/page4.html>, Source page: /InfCoD2.html [AotW citation 21946]

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